Heh, thanks! The colours seem nicer too. I'm sorry I didn't put a source. I figured it could just be pulled from my current icon. While I'm busy exploiting the fine people of this thread... anyone here good with GIFs? I'm wanting one of San spitting blood. I can find source images and stuff, but all the ones I unearthed today were looped pretty badly. If something like this is possible let me know!

Heh, thanks! The colours seem nicer too. I'm sorry I didn't put a source. I figured it could just be pulled from my current icon. While I'm busy exploiting the fine people of this thread... anyone here good with GIFs? I'm wanting one of San spitting blood. I can find source images and stuff, but all the ones I unearthed today were looped pretty badly. If something like this is possible let me know!

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I'd be fine doing something. I'll do it tomorrow though since it's late here.

Heh, thanks! The colours seem nicer too. I'm sorry I didn't put a source. I figured it could just be pulled from my current icon. While I'm busy exploiting the fine people of this thread... anyone here good with GIFs? I'm wanting one of San spitting blood. I can find source images and stuff, but all the ones I unearthed today were looped pretty badly. If something like this is possible let me know!

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I'd be fine doing something. I'll do it tomorrow though since it's late here.

Okay, seriously there must be some kind of one-click way to make easy gif icons on Photoshop or something...

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I don't even use photoshop really, I used virtual dub and all it requires me to do is chop the video into the segment I need, it rips each frame out and makes it into a series of image files that you can load into photoshop just by loading one of the files (#0). Afterwards I generally edit the images to improve quality or whatever.

How I've been doing it ^

You can do it from any source though whether it's a DVD, MKV, MP4, AVI , FLV whatever.

any ideas what I can do with this to lower the amount of free space above their heads? Note, couldn't be bothered to stroke this since it already had a transparent background.Don't want to end up with a side cut off of her hair or anything.

any ideas what I can do with this to lower the amount of free space above their heads? Note, couldn't be bothered to stroke this since it already had a transparent background.Don't want to end up with a side cut off of her hair or anything.

put some words in that space. some people use that space for their user names, others write out something funny. or you could do like some people and throw in a bat shit crazy background that will fill up that space.

If there isn't enough space, you can always throw in logos behind characters as well. Even if it seems out of place it can complete an icon half of the time.

When searching for a particular logo or an emblem that represents the character or series in mind, try searching with the .png extension after your search criteria in google image search. Odds are that if the subject is popular enough you can grab and position a transparent .png image behind your icon layer with little to no effort at all and substitute it as a background.

All I could think of doing and it's cut off lol, maybe axe the drop shadows and . This isn't the finished product by the way, just trying to see if I can find something to do with it. I might stroke this completely, it's only got an outline since I was lazy and used one of the blending options and maybe resize the logos a little to make sure it doesn't get cut off.

The drop shadow is a tad too thick and the stroke is alittle broken around the edges. If you have the original file size, then by all means try to pentool some of the lines too within the characters. This will result in something very similar to your current icon making the finished picture stand out much more and appear sharper.

Also if you save your .png icon files as interlaced through Photoshop you can upload them transparent. Usually beats working with only one kind of canvas colour when somebody else wants to use the icon at a later date with a different board setup.

Also if you save your .png icon files as interlaced through Photoshop you can upload them transparent. Usually beats working with only one kind of canvas colour when somebody else wants to use the icon at a later date with a different board setup.

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I dun get it, interlacing only affects how an image is loaded online, why should it have any affect on how it is presented with a transparent background or not?

//interlaced images load with yucky pixels initially before incrementally loading more detail while images that aren't interlaced load from the top down

Brit just doesn't know what he's talking about. ^^
Interlaced is only good if you care about people with bad connections, but who cares about that. It doesn't affect the transparency as said, only makes the file bigger.

What exactly do you mean by no options? You mean when you just go to Save As... and you can only choose none or interlaced?

I just tried both the Save As.. option without using interlaced and Save for Web & Devices with transparency checked (no matte color) and both yielded me a transparent .png file.
Do you disabble the background layer before saving? I do hope you use transparent background when opening up a new psd file. ;p

And you never touch the preset options in photshop. I once tried to change some interface stuff. Had to re-install photoshop. lol